Snider appointed as Managing Director of Collaborations for Health

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Anne Snider has been appointed Managing Director of McMaster University's Collaborations for Health initiative.

Collaborations for Health is a campus-wide initiative to position McMaster as the premier health university in Canada, by capitalizing on the culture of collaboration and experience in tackling complex health problems using the combined insight of many disciplines.

She brings extensive managerial, strategic, and academic skills to the new, two-day-a-week role. Snider is also incoming manager of the new Department of Oncology in the Faculty of Health Sciences, a part-time assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and Director of Development: Academic and Quality Programs for the Juravinski Cancer Program at Hamilton Health Sciences.

Her accomplishments include managing a $56 million capital expansion project as executive director of the Juravinski Cancer Centre, leading the integration of the cancer centre with Hamilton Health Sciences, and helping develop the strategic plan for the new Department of Oncology. She has also managed and contributed to the development of several education programs at McMaster, including the Clinical Behavioural Sciences Program, the joint McMaster Ryerson Laurentian Midwifery Program and the new undergraduate radiation therapy stream in the Medical Radiation Sciences Program.